Effect of Age, Gender, Education, and Self-Assessed Communication Skills on Lip-Reading Skills in Normal-Hearing Adults
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lipreading, predictive factors, normal-hearing adultsAbstract
Objective. Our aim was to measure the effect of intra subject variables on lipreading skills in normal-hearing participants.
Methods. We developed tests on mute video supports, with different speakers, on several verbal material: vowels, consonants, words, sentences and conversations. We measured the effect of age, gender and level of education on recognition scores in 169 normal-hearing participants.
Results. The results confirm an effect of age: younger participants have better results than older. There is also a gender effect for the synthetic sub-tests only, previously partially described: women perform better. Finally, for the first time we were able to clearly show the effect of level of education, but only for the synthetic sub-tests. In contrast, we found no link between lipreading performance and self-assessed communication skills.
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